Few can pay the costs of long-term care, even with help from their children.

IN our house, we talk a lot about long-term care.

Or is it also going to be for access to long-term care?

A powerful case can be made that long-term care is the risk of growing old.

Under current law, Government spending for long-term care will total $22 billion this year, they said.

Though more people are living well into their 80s and 90s, many need the kind of long-term care available at a nursing home.

The population age 85 and older, the group most likely to need long-term care, is expected to double, to 8.9 million, by 2030.

The working group is considering four ways to cover long-term care.

Should people have to sell their homes to pay for long-term care?

Similarly, I think we must do the same thing with long-term care.